Sweden’s Atomic Energy, 1960s Pamphlets

Published March 31, 2015 by
Rob Ketcherside

In September 1967 my grandfather visited Stockholm for a meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 45, setting standards for nuclear reactor test equipment. TC45 held yearly conferences, rotating around mostly European cities. My grandfather was very serious about taking photographs and left slides from each trip. In addition to a couple carousels of slides of Stockholm, he left an assortment of ephemera from the trip. My grandmother accompanied him and left brief hand-written notes as well.

Here I share two pamphlets describing Sweden’s new nuclear power facilities.

First describes the nuclear power facilities in Sweden along with a brief timeline of atomic energy history in Sweden: